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SDK 0.4.3 linux bugs and issues
First of all, please oculus, set up a bug tracker or a mailing list, or something that will facilitate a direct path of communicated bugs and isuses without going through this forum. I'll post a co...
One more issue I noticed with my so far very limited testing: the makefile should link all libraries used by libovr to the shared library produced. Otherwise the applications will have to know which libraries libovr happens to use and link them manually.
This is not foolproof, as some systems use the ld-gold linker which doesn't follow dependencies of libraries being linked, and even with the original GNU linker, dependencies can't be carried by the static version of the library anyway. But it doesn't hurt.
Ideally you would also provide a pkg-config file (libovr.pc) which will have to be installed in $(PREFIX)/share/pkgconfig, by the install rule of the makefile. pkgconfig files list commandline options required during compilation and linking so that running pkg-config --libs libovr in the application's makefile, will output the commandline needed to link all of libovr's depedencies. This is de-facto standard practice for all UNIX libraries with complicated dependencies, so that the application won't have to know what each librarie's internal dependencies are.
For now I'm maintaining a mercurial repository of the oculus SDK with my changes so far: http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/hg/ovr_sdk/ if you clone it and try an "hg diff -r 0:tip" you'll get a patch of all my changes from the original OVR 0.4.3 release.
This is not foolproof, as some systems use the ld-gold linker which doesn't follow dependencies of libraries being linked, and even with the original GNU linker, dependencies can't be carried by the static version of the library anyway. But it doesn't hurt.
Ideally you would also provide a pkg-config file (libovr.pc) which will have to be installed in $(PREFIX)/share/pkgconfig, by the install rule of the makefile. pkgconfig files list commandline options required during compilation and linking so that running pkg-config --libs libovr in the application's makefile, will output the commandline needed to link all of libovr's depedencies. This is de-facto standard practice for all UNIX libraries with complicated dependencies, so that the application won't have to know what each librarie's internal dependencies are.
For now I'm maintaining a mercurial repository of the oculus SDK with my changes so far: http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/hg/ovr_sdk/ if you clone it and try an "hg diff -r 0:tip" you'll get a patch of all my changes from the original OVR 0.4.3 release.